George E. Bodgen

Senior Counsel for Trade

gbogden@continentalstrategy.com

(202) 642-5989

Before joining Continental Strategy, Dr. Bogden clerked at the U.S. Court of International Trade and practiced at the Washington, DC offices of two globally-recognized law firms, where he advised on antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, export controls, sanctions, customs compliance, international arbitration, and other complex commercial matters. A writer and commentator, his analysis has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, War on the Rocks, Lawfare, The Hill, and The National Interest.

Dr. Bogden is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission. He also maintains affiliations with the Bretton Woods Committee, Chatham House, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Dr. George E. Bogden is Senior Counsel for Trade at Continental Strategy, specializing in cross-border policy. He previously served as Executive Director of the Office of Trade Relations at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where he was the agency’s primary liaison to the international trade community.


ACCOLADES

Tony Blankley Fellow for Public Policy and American Exceptionalism, Steamboat Institute

Visiting Fellow, Eccles Center, British Library

New Security Leader, Warsaw Security Forum 

Senior Fellow, Budapest Fellowship Program, Hungary Foundation

Helmut Schmidt Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Berlin)

American Delegate, American Council on Germany Young Leaders Program and British-American Project

Krauthammer Fellow, Tikvah Fund

Strategy & Policy Fellow, Smith Richardson Foundation

George F. Kennan Fellow, Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute

Olin‑Searle‑Smith‑Darling Fellow, Columbia Law School

First Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society, Hudson Institute

Fulbright Public Policy Fellow, Kosovo

Brussels Forum Young Writers Award and RUSI’s Trench Gascoigne Essay Contest


EDUCATION

New York University School of Law, J.D. (Editor‑in‑Chief, Journal of Law & Liberty; Dean’s Award Scholar)

University of Oxford, M.Phil., D.Phil. in International Relations (Clarendon Scholar)

Yale University, B.A. in Political Science (Honors)